FAQ

In combination with the relevant professional experience, the completion of this master degree programme facilitates your access to leading positions.

Our graduates are active in frontline practice, in design and planning, and in the practice-oriented research and development of a modern social and healthcare sector.

Most of our students already pursue an activity in the Social Work field. We give them the opportunity to combine their existing knowledge with the course contents during the block teaching weeks.

In the courses “Disciplinary Practice” and “Mentoring”, the students develop their individual educational plan together with experts and build bridges between the profession and the discipline.

The objective is to expand the personal profile and acquire additional specific competencies, for example through internships, job shadowing, optional subjects, study trips or (inter)national conferences, and the creation of podcasts or publications.

In the course of their studies, every student becomes a member of a research team at the Ilse Arlt Institute for Social Inclusion Research and writes their master thesis in this capacity.

Examples from past years:  

• “Grätzl-Hubs” for Good Neighbourly Relations:

This project was dedicated to the collaborative development of community projects in St. Pölten. The students combined questions on what constitutes good neighbourly relations and inclusive living with healthcare and climate protection concerns. The idea was to design concrete projects in St. Pölten.

• 1450 + Social Work: 

In Austria, the health advice call centre can be reached nationwide under the phone number 1450. Many callers describe concerns that have a primarily psychosocial background. Within the framework of this project, the students explored the foundations for a Social Work approach to issues that are mainly psychosocial or socio-psychiatric in nature or exhibit a lack of organisational support structures. The students worked out potential communication techniques and tools for these kinds of Social Work clearings.